[rkagerer]

Can you talk a little bit about the other side of this, i.e. the experience if you want to become a manufacturing partner?

API's, how pricing is calculated, scheduling (how your system knows if my shop is booked up or could use more jobs), how you curate suppliers, any non-obvious advantages to partnering, etc.

[grmmph]

Pricing is calculated depending on various of geomerical parameters - the obvious of these would be volume, weight, bounding box - but it gets more complex depending on the process and material, as well as the local salary of employees in supplier's location.

As a manufacturer, you have your own app that is used as a back office. For example, you can play around with pricing depending on how busy your shop is in a given time.

We vett supplier by working them before and taking them on a test run. Most of our suppliers are used by enterprice companies like IAI, so you can trust us that if you'll get accepted you're in a good comapny :)

In my personal opinion, the biggest advantages to partnering with us as a supplier is that we save significant amount of time on overhead (quoting, payments, communications).